Testing Cookies in Ruby on Rails 2
Over the weekend, Brian Ford released a useful plugin for testing your Ruby on Rails applications called, assert_cookie.
Brian likes his cookies…
“I love cookies. There are, of course, tons of varieties and I’m no connoisseur but I love the soft chocolate chip right out of the oven, hot and gooey. But, if you’re like me, you don’t want your Rails code to be gooey.” -Brian Ford
To use assert_cookie, follow these steps.
- Install via,
script/plugin install http://svn.planetargon.org/rails/plugins/assert_cookie - Fill your tests with some cookies
- Test your cookies!
assert_cookie :pass,
:value => lambda { |value| UUID.parse(value).valid? }
assert_cookie :yellow, :value => ['sunny', 'days']
assert_cookie :delight, :value => 'yum'
assert_cookie :secret, :path => lambda { |path| path =~ /secret/ },
:secure => trueFor more information on other plugins and tools that PLANET ARGON is releasing under open source licenses, visit www.planetargon.org.
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Thanks for this Brian and Robby! I use this code quite a bit.
Does this plugin work with edge rails? All of the tests pass but when I try to use the plugin I get some strange behavior.
assert_cookie :mycookie, :value => ’’ is true all the time assert_cookie :mycookie, :value => ‘someval’ throws an error saying
NoMethodError: undefined method `value’ for someval